A 16-year-old Jewish girl was pelted with bottles and suffered injuries to her head and face in a 'deliberate and violent' antisemitic attack in north London. The attack occurred on Monday evening near a girls' school and is under investigation by police as a potential hate crime.
A 16-year-old Jewish girl was pelted with bottles and suffered injuries to her head and face in a 'deliberate and violent' attack in north London, as police say they have launched an investigation into a potential hate crime .
In a statement on X, Shomrim posted a video of the scene, which is close to a girls' school, and said the street had been 'covered in shattered glass following an antisemitic attack on Orthodox Jewish schoolchildren.' 'A 16-year-old girl was struck on the head and was taken to hospital. Her injuries have since been assessed as non-life changing.
Shomrim, a Jewish neighbourhood watch group, attended the scene and posted a video showing an array of glass shards on the ground alongside what appears to be broken plates Read More Jewish charity has recorded more than 5,500 anti-Semitic incidents in year since Hamas attacks The incident occurred after a recent poll by Campaign Against Antisemtism revealed 69 per cent of British Jews are 'less likely to show visible signs of their Judaism in public' in the current climate.
A sticker of a Palestine flag with the slogan 'Jews are the scum of the earth' is displayed in London in October last year
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